Internet Monthly Report for September, 1999 1. The IESG approved or recommended the following 16 Protocol Actions during the month of September, 1999: o RTFM Working Group - New Attributes for Traffic Flow Measurement for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o RTFM: Applicability Statement for publication as an Informational RFC. o Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture for publication as an Informational RFC. o SRL: A Language for Describing Traffic Flows and Specifying Actions for Flow Groups for publication as an Informational RFC. o Interoperability Rules for Multicast Routing Protocols for publication as an Informational RFC. o Architectural Framework for Signaling Transport for publication as an Informational RFC. o Definition of the inetOrgPerson LDAP Object Class for publication as an Informational RFC. o Schema for Representing CORBA Objects in an LDAP Directory for publication as an Informational RFC. o A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks for publication as an Informational RFC. o Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB for publication as a Proposed Standard. o List-Id: A Structured Field and Namespace for the Identification of Mailing Lists for publication as a Proposed Standard. o MPLS Label Stack Encoding for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The Transmission of IP Over the Vertical Blanking Interval of a Television Signal for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Routing Policy System Security for publication as a Proposed Standard. 2. 28 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of September, 1999: o A Framework for Policy-based Admission Control for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Digest Values for DOM (DOMHASH) for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0 for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Digital Signatures for the Internet Open Trading Protocol for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Internet Relay Chat: Architecture for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Internet Relay Chat: Channel Management for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Internet Relay Chat: Server Protocol for consideration as an Informational RFC. o OSPF for IPv6 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o COPS usage for RSVP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RSVP Extensions for Policy Control for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Signaled Preemption Priority Policy Element for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Identity Representation for RSVP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Entity MIB using SMIv2 (Version 2) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Accounting Data Interchange Format (ADIF) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RSVP Diagnostic Messages for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RSVP Operation Over IP Tunnels for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RSVP Cryptographic Authentication for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o VCID Notification over ATM link for LDP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Preferred Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A Model for Presence and Instant Messaging for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Instant Messaging / Presence Protocol Requirements for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o NHRP Support for Virtual Private Networks for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Distributed Routing Policy System for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 3. Four new working groups were formed: Zero Configuration Networking (zeroconf) Common Name Resolution Protocol (cnrp) Web Versioning and Configuration Management (deltav) Session Initiation Protocol (sip) One working group concluded: IP Payload Compression Protocol (ippcp) 4. There were 161 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of September, 1999: (ipfc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric Element in Fibre Channel Standard (idmr) o IP Multicast Routing MIB (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol MIB (idmr) o Protocol Independent Multicast MIB (idr) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) (idmr) o Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol MIB (idmr) o Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (ediint) o Requirements for Inter-operable Internet EDI (ediint) o MIME-based Secure EDI (tls) o Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) (rtfm) o RTFM Working Group - New Attributes for Traffic Flow Measurement (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB (avt) o Real-Time Transport Protocol Management Information Base (none) o Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language (mpls) o A Framework for MPLS (ip1394) o IPv4 over IEEE 1394 (lsma) o Taxonomy of Communication Requirements for Large-scale Multicast Applications (none) o URLs for Telephone Calls (idr) o Capabilities Negotiation with BGP-4 (ipsec) o The Use of HMAC-RIPEMD-160-96 within ESP and AH (mpls) o MPLS Label Stack Encoding (tcpsat) o Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites (ipsec) o Extended Authentication Within ISAKMP/Oakley (tls) o HTTP Over TLS (none) o Telnet Data Encryption Option (none) o Telnet Authentication Option (none) o Telnet Authentication: Kerberos Version 5 (none) o Telnet Encryption: DES 64 bit Cipher Feedback (none) o Telnet Encryption: DES 64 bit Output Feedback (mpls) o Carrying Label Information in BGP-4 (urlreg) o Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names (aft) o Multi-Authentication Framework Method for SOCKS V5 (none) o ARP and IP Broadcast over HIPPI-800 (disman) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations Using SMIv2 (none) o The WWW Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1 (idr) o Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 (none) o E.164 number and DNS (ldapext) o X.509 Authentication SASL Mechanism (smime) o Domain Security Services using S/MIME (nat) o Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT) (sigtran) o Multi_Network Datagram Transmission Protocol (trade) o Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0 (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time Stamp Protocols (fax) o Internet fax T.30 Feature Mapping (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure PKIX Roadmap (rps) o Distributed Routing Policy System (none) o Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism (poisson) o Publicly Verifiable Random Selection (pppext) o PPP over Simple Data Link (SDL) using SONET/SDH with ATM-like framing (none) o UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 (nat) o NAT Friendly Application Design Guidelines (mpls) o Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels (mobileip) o Mobile IP Challenge/Response Extensions (rap) o Signaled Preemption Priority Policy Element (rap) o Identity Representation for RSVP (isis) o Dynamic Hostname Exchange Mechanism for ISIS (nat) o An SNMP Application Level Gateway for Payload Address Translation (none) o IP and ARP over HIPPI-6400 (GSN) (idr) o BGP Route Reflection An alternative to full mesh IBGP (malloc) o Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP) (none) o BGP Extended Communities Attribute (none) o Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4 (trade) o Digest Values for DOM (DOMHASH) (megaco) o Media Gateway Control Protocol Architecture and Requirements (pppext) o MPPE Key Derivation (conneg) o Identifying composite media features (ipfc) o Fibre Channel Management Framework Integration MIB (mobileip) o Mobile IP Network Access Identifier Extension (smime) o Examples of S/MIME Messages (malloc) o MADCAP Multicast Scope Nesting State Option (trade) o Digital Signatures for the Internet Open Trading Protocol (none) o Internet Transparency (none) o Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML (megaco) o MEGACO Protocol (ipvbi) o The Transmission of IP Over the Vertical Blanking Interval of a Television Signal (none) o A revised signature mode for the Internet Key Exchange (issll) o A Framework For Integrated Services Operation Over Diffserv Networks (none) o Simple Protocol Application Data Encoding (impp) o A Model for Presence and Instant Messaging (ipngwg) o Preferred Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's (ipsec) o Additional ECC Groups For IKE (pilc) o Performance Implications of Link-Layer Characteristics: Slow Links (pilc) o Performance Implications of Link-Layer Characteristics: Links with Errors (none) o RObust Checksum-based header COmpression (ROCCO) (frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service Level Definitions (none) o Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol (idwg) o Intrusion Detection Exchange Format Requirements (dnsind) o The Kitchen Sink Resource Record (avt) o RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones and Telephony Signals (nfsv4) o NFS version 4 (none) o Study of TCP and UDP Interaction for the AF PHB (ospf) o Management Information Base for OSPFv3 (none) o Applicability Statement for Extensions to RSVP for LSP-Tunnels (ldup) o LDAP Subentry Schema (rps) o RPS IANA Issues (ldapext) o Returning Matched Values with LDAPv3 (dnsind) o Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations (none) o Double Phase DHCP Configuration (none) o Secure Remote Password SASL Mechanism (grip) + Site Security Handbook Addendum for ISPs (wrec) + Known HTTP Proxy/Caching Problems (none) + Xdossier (aft) + SOCKS successor requirements (none) o Description of the Blowfish Cipher (none) + Description of the Blowfish Cipher (smime) + Use of the CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm in S/MIME (none) o Referal extension to the Whois protocol (none) + SIP Best Current Practice for Telephony Interworking (ldapext) + A Taxonomoy of Methods for LDAP Clients Finding Servers (none) + A Lower Than Best-Effort Per-Hop Behavior (bmwg) + Terminology for ATM Benchmarking (none) + LDAP Object Class for Holding Certificate Information (none) + Terminology and Goals for Quality Document Transfer (ldapext) + Discovering LDAP Services with DNS (none) + Geographic extensions for HTTP transactions (none) + IP Multicast in Differentiated Services Networks (webdav) + Proposed Extensions to WebDAV Properties (none) + Defining the IETF (none) + SKiCal - an adaptation of iCalendar for describing public events (none) + The Payload Parameter Packaging Scheme < draft-saraswat-payload-00.txt> (policy) + Requirements for a Policy Management System (ip1394) + 'IP over iso1394' and 'AV over iso1394' controlled by an extension of MCAP. (none) + SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol (none) + The SIP Servlet API (policy) + Policy Framework (pkix) + Using TCP as a Transport Protocol for CMP (msgtrk) + Message Tracking Model (none) + TCP Processing of the IP Precedence Field (ipngwg) + Multihomed routing domain issues for IPv6 aggregatable scheme (issll) + Specification of the Null Service Type (none) + NNMP: Net News Metadata Protocol (manet) + Relative Distance Micro-discovery Ad Hoc Routing (RDMAR) Protocol (none) + IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (webdav) + WebDAV PROPFIND Extension To List Specified Namespaces (cat) + Extending Change Password for Setting Kerberos Passwords (none) + LDAP Schema for the DMTF Core CIM Model (none) + LDAP Schema for the DMTF Device CIM Model (none) + Internet Protocol Specifications for IPv7 and IPv8 Address Classes (none) + Plain Text/Source Code File Header (none) + The 'text/html' Media Type (none) + Instant Messaging / Presence Protocol Design Issues (none) + A proposal to Cooperate ECN into Wireless and Mobile Networks (sigtran) + Simple Control Transmission Protocol (none) + XML Media Types (rsvp) + RSVP Refresh Reduction Extensions (none) + Accounting Protocol and Record Format Features (fax) + Content feature schema for Internet fax (pppext) + Secure Remote Access with L2TP (iab) + Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) (none) + IAP: Intrusion Alert Protocol (none) + LDAP C API Error Reporting Extension (pilc) + Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers (none) + LDAP C API Concurrency Extensions (none) + IANA Registration and the End to End Principle (none) + Dynamic Update Zone Transfer (sigtran) + SS7 MTP2-User Adaptation Layer (sigtran) + ISDN Q.921-User Adaptation Layer (pppext) + PPP Bridging Control Protocol for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. (issll) + Aggregation of RSVP for IPv4 and IPv6 Reservations (megaco) + Megaco/H.248 Generic Packages (none) + DIAMETER Accounting Extension 5. 28 RFCs were published during this period RFC2659 E (wts) Security Extensions For HTML RFC2660 E (wts) The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol RFC2665 PS (hubmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types RFC2666 I (hubmib) Definitions of Object Identifiers for Identifying Ethernet Chip Sets RFC2668 PS (hubmib) Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) using SMIv2 RFC2674 PS (bridge) Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Traffic Classes, Multicast Filtering and Virtual LAN Extensions RFC2676 E (none) QoS Routing Mechanisms and OSPF Extensions RFC2679 PS (ippm) A One-way Delay Metric for IPPM RFC2680 PS (ippm) A One-way Packet Loss Metric for IPPM RFC2681 PS (ippm) A Round-trip Delay Metric for IPPM RFC2682 I (none) Performance Issues in VC-Merge Capable ATM LSRs RFC2683 I (none) IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations RFC2684 PS (ion) Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5 RFC2685 PS (ion) Virtual Private Networks Identifier RFC2686 PS (issll) The Multi-Class Extension to Multi-Link PPP RFC2687 PS (issll) PPP in a real-time oriented HDLC-like framing RFC2688 PS (issll) Integrated Services Mappings for Low Speed Networks RFC2689 I (issll) Providing integrated services over low- bitrate links RFC2690 I (poisson) A Proposal for an MOU-Based ICANN Protocol Support Organization RFC2691 I (poisson) A Memorandum of Understanding for an ICANN Protocol Support Organization RFC2692 E (spki) SPKI Requirements RFC2693 E (spki) SPKI Certificate Theory RFC2694 I (nat) DNS extensions to Network Address Translators (DNS_ALG) RFC2695 I (oncrpc) Authentication Mechanisms for ONC RPC RFC2696 I (ldapext) LDAP Control Extension for Simple Paged Results Manipulation RFC2697 I (none) A Single Rate Three Color Marker RFC2698 I (none) A Two Rate Three Color Marker RFC3677 PS (ion) Definitions of Managed Objects for the NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) RFC2701 I (none) Multi-link Multi-node PPP Bundle Discovery Protocol RFC2702 I (mpls) Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS RFC2703 I (conneg) Protocol-independent Content Negotiation Framework RFC2704 I (none) The KeyNote Trust-Management System Version 2